John Maynard Smith and evolutionary game theory.

When John Maynard Smith passed away on April 19, 2004, most obituaries expressed the view that among the amazing wealth of his contributions to theoretical biology, the most significant was the introduction of game theoretical methods for the analysis of evolutionary problems. JMS would probably have agreed with this. In an essay entitled 'Evolution and the Theory of Games' (Maynard Smith 1976), he set out to trace the history of this idea. With his characteristic blend of generosity and objectivity, he made it clear that he was not the first to discover the usefulness of game theory in evolutionary biology. Nevertheless, it is right to view him as the father of evolutionary game theory...

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[3]  V. Wynne-Edwards.  Group Selection and Kin Selection , 1964, Nature.

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[5]  J. Maynard Smith,et al.  Can a mixed strategy be stable in a finite population , 1988 .

[6]  John Maynard Smith,et al.  The logic of asymmetric contests , 1976, Animal Behaviour.

[7]  J. M. Smith,et al.  Games between relatives. , 1979, Journal of theoretical biology.

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[11]  John Maynard Smith,et al.  Byte-sized evolution , 1992, Nature.

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[15]  S. Lessard.  Evolutionary stability: one concept, several meanings. , 1990 .

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[17]  WILLIS JACKSON.  Scientific, Technological and Technical Manpower , 1963, Nature.

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[22]  John Maynard Smith.  Honest signalling: the Philip Sidney game , 1991, Animal Behaviour.

[23]  J. M. Smith.  Will a Sexual Population Evolve to an Ess? , 1981, The American Naturalist.

[24]  J. Verner.  Selection for Sex Ratio , 1965, The American Naturalist.